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* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells one of the Hitler clones his true origins. It fails.
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* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells one of the Hitler clones his true origins. It fails.fails, with the clone initially dismissing Mengele as 'weird' and then expressing horror after he learns that Mengele killed his father.
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* CloningGambit: Mengele's plot is to create new, original Hitlers by cloning him and recreating his upbringing.
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* CloningGambit: Mengele's plot is to create new, original Hitlers by cloning him and recreating his upbringing.upbringing, to the extent of arranging for the boys to be adopted by parents who had a similar background to Hitler's own and planning to discreetly assassinate their fathers at the same time as Hitler's father died.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The titular "boys" from Brazil initially seems to refer to the enclave of Nazis that secretly live there, as in "the old-boys network." [[spoiler:It isn't until about halfway through the book that we find out the "boys" are the cloned children. Levin's notorious for these little hidden-in-plan-sight jokes: the Nazis can't be the "boys ''from'' Brazil" since they're ''in'' Brazil; they're ''from'' Germany!]]
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A 1976 novel by Creator/IraLevin, it was adapted into a 1978 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier (in his last AcademyAward-nominated UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated role) as Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman and Creator/GregoryPeck as Dr Josef Mengele. The score, which was also nominated for an Oscar, was composed by Music/JerryGoldsmith.
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* ApocalypseHitlerApocalypseHitler: Mengele's theory is that if it's possible to perfectly replicate Hitler, from genetic composition down to the kind of events that moulded his life, everything else will come eventually.
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MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Mengele's and his fellow Nazis' ways to take out the clones' parents. As his VillainousBreakdown continues, Mengele kind of starts caring less about this detail.
*NaziHunterNaziHunter: The protagonists, Lieberman being the most prevalent among them. As the film goes on, Lieberman becomes the only one that doesn't believes the situation is crazy enough that the GodzillaThreshold of ordering the death of 95 kids is an acceptable way of dealing with a potential threat.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitleSecondaryCharacterTitle: The titular children being Hitler's clones, with both protagonists and antagonists racing around the world and against the clock to find the one that has become a "perfect" copy.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Or ''Daddies'', in one of the Hitler clones' case, since he gets Mengele devoured by his dogs after finding out he killed his father.
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** Also subverted, as the description remains far more accurate than most most examples of cloning in Hollywood.
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* OhCrap: Mengele has an epic one on his face throughout his death scene, as he realizes the dogs are going to tear him apart and the only one who can stop it the Hitler clone, who's clearly enjoying every minute.
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* OhCrap: Mengele has an epic one on his face throughout his death scene, as he realizes the dogs are going to tear him apart and the only one who can stop it is the Hitler clone, who's clearly enjoying every minute.
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* OhCrap: Mengele has an epic one on his face throughout his death scene, as he realizes the dogs are going to tear him apart and the only one who can stop it the Hitler clone, who's clearly enjoying every minute.
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* KarmicDeath: Mengele dies at the hands of his own clone (who sicks wild dogs on him.)
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Either he would be recreating wartime Germany, or creating a successor to the Reich—not recreating something that didn't exist.
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** Josef Mengele goes from, essentially, a psychotic State-sponsored SerialKiller who was, in reality, a totally incompetent scientist; to the DiabolicalMastermind behind both a cloning project at least a century ahead of its time, and an elaborate political scheme to recreate the Fourth Third Reich.
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Unfortunately for him, Mengele has a group of devoted Nazi hunters on his trail...
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Unfortunately for him, Mengele has a group of devoted Nazi hunters {{Nazi Hunter}}s on his trail...
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mengele finds himself at the mercy of one of his cloned Hitlers. Oops.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Mengele finds himself at the mercy of one of his cloned Hitlers.Oops.Oops.
** Earlier in the movie, one of the Nazi assassins expresses doubts over his mission to an old comrade, who advises him to go ahead. Turns out he's the man meant to be killed.
** Mengele finds himself at the mercy of one of his cloned Hitlers.
** Earlier in the movie, one of the Nazi assassins expresses doubts over his mission to an old comrade, who advises him to go ahead. Turns out he's the man meant to be killed.
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* WhatTheHellHero: The NaziHunter tells off Liebermann for burning the list of cloned Hitlers, saying it was stupid old fools like him who allowed the Holocaust to happen. Liebermann replies that it was Nazis, "who would kill even children to get their way."
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* KarmicDeath: Mengele dies at the hands of his own clone (who sicks wild dogs on him.)
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mengele kills Bobby's father, an unrepentant racist.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mengele kills Bobby's father, an unrepentant racist.
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A 1976 novel by Ira Levin, it was adapted into a 1978 film starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier (in his last Academy Award - nominated role) as Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman and Creator/GregoryPeck as Dr Josef Mengele. The Academy - Award nominated score was composed by JerryGoldsmith.
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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Nazis plan is to kill the boys' fathers to replicate Hitler's origin story. But one of them, after knowing Mengele killed his old man, sends the dogs to attack him.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The The Nazis plan is to kill the boys' fathers to replicate Hitler's origin story. But one of them, after knowing Mengele killed his old man, sends the dogs to attack him.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells [[spoiler:one of the Hitler clones]] his true origins. It fails.
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* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells [[spoiler:one one of the Hitler clones]] clones his true origins. It fails.
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* CloningGambit: [[spoiler:Mengele's plot is to create new, original Hitlers by cloning him and recreating his upbringing.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Barry in the movie]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:In the ending, one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed and excited about his pictures of Mengele's dead body. There are still up to 94 more of them around the world, ticking timebombs.]]
* ExpendableClone: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:In the ending, one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed and excited about his pictures of Mengele's dead body. There are still up to 94 more of them around the world, ticking timebombs.]]
* ExpendableClone: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Barry Barry in the movie]].
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* TheEndOrIsIt:[[spoiler:In the ending, There are still 95 clones of Hitler all over, ticking timebombs. And it's heavily implied that Mengele's scheme ''worked'', as one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed is seen drawing a stadium full of people cheering a "great man".
-->He could hear the people cheering, roaring; a beautiful growing love-thunder that built andexcited about his pictures built, and then pounded, pounded, pounded, pounded.\\
Sort ofMengele's dead body. There are still up to 94 more of them around the world, ticking timebombs.]]
like in those old Hitler movies.
* ExpendableClone: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each isirreplaceable. irreplaceable - especially since re-creating the original through upbringing is largely a manner of luck.
* TheEndOrIsIt:
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** A DiscussedTrope when it comes to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If nothing else, he is [[TheDreaded dreaded]] enough that everyone fears this outcome. Social, political, economic factors and everything else be damned!damned! So much so that Gorin wants them all killed.
--->'''Liebermann''': ''I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions... and the people to follow the Hitler.''
--->'''Liebermann''': ''I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions... and the people to follow the Hitler.''
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* DatedHistory: The movie puts Mengele in Paraguay (though the mothers of the kids are Brazilian), his speculated real life location. He truly went there for sometime, but in the 1970s he was ''really'' in Brazil (where he died in 1979, meaning that besides the deteriorated health he could have seen the movie).
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* HistoryMarchesOn: The movie puts Mengele in Paraguay (though the mothers of the kids are Brazilian), his speculated real life location. He truly went there for sometime, but in the 1970s he was ''really'' in Brazil (where he died in 1979, meaning that besides the deteriorated health he could have seen the movie).
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** AdolfHitler, too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If nothing else, he is [[TheDreaded dreaded]] enough that everyone fears this outcome. Social, political, economic factors and everything else be damned!
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** AdolfHitler, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If nothing else, he is [[TheDreaded dreaded]] enough that everyone fears this outcome. Social, political, economic factors and everything else be damned!
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* ActingForTwo: The Boys
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* OneHitWonder: Jeremy Black, who played the titular kids, never had another film role, although he still had a career as a stage actor.
* PlayingAgainstType: Gregory Peck is the bad guy here.
* PlayingAgainstType: Gregory Peck is the bad guy here.
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The novel and film are a speculative fiction type story involving infamous real-life Nazi scientist Mengele (known as the "Angel of Death" for the extent of death he inflicted upon his victims during the Holocaust) trying to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Hitler and recreating the events of his youth in order to make sure his Hitler Clones become as much like the original as possible.
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* CarFu: In the film, one of the assassins uses his car as a weapon to murder a German postman.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Mengele suddenly finds himself wishing that his cloned Hitler weren't quite so sadistic.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Mengele asks his superiors why he can't "[[WhyCantYouJustShootHim just shoot him]]", only to be denied...
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A Simon Wiesenthal Center operative finds something big. All around the world.
A 1976 novel by Ira Levin, it was adapted into a 1978 film starring LaurenceOlivier as Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman and GregoryPeck as Dr Josef Mengele.
The novel and film are a speculative fiction type story involving infamous Nazi scientist Mengele (known as the "Angel of Death" for the extent of death he inflicted upon his victims during the Holocaust) trying to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Hitler and recreating the events of his youth in order to make sure his Hitler Clones become as much like the original as possible.
Unfortunately for him, Mengele has a group of devoted Nazi hunters on his trail...
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!!Tropes featured in this work include:
* ActingForTwo: The Boys
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Villainous example, as Mengele's superiors torch his base and kill his men.
* AndStarring: "And Introducing Jeremy Black." Black never had another screen credit, though he did do some stage work.
* AngryGuardDog: The Wheelock family has about a dozen well-trained dobermans.
* ApocalypseHitler
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Paraguay and Brazil, in this case.
* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells [[spoiler:one of the Hitler clones]] his true origins. It fails.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: In spite of the fact that most of the boys from Brazil are clearly budding sociopaths, Lieberman is against their assassination, since they haven't committed any crimes.
* CloningGambit: [[spoiler:Mengele's plot is to create new, original Hitlers by cloning him and recreating his upbringing.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Their back up plans have back up plans.
* CreepyBlueEyes: The Paraguayans in Mengele's compound and all of the cloned Hitlers. The real Hitler had brown eyes, but many of his portraits were altered during his reign to give him blue eyes.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Barry in the movie]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:In the ending, one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed and excited about his pictures of Mengele's dead body. There are still up to 94 more of them around the world, ticking timebombs.]]
* ExpendableClone: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
* EvilDetectingDog: The dogs don't like Mengele.
* FailureHero
* GoneHorriblyRight: Mengele suddenly finds himself wishing that his cloned Hitler weren't quite so sadistic.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mengele finds himself at the mercy of one of his cloned Hitlers. Oops.
* HuntingAccident: One of the parents' murders is disguised as such.
* HistoryMarchesOn: The movie puts Mengele in Paraguay (though the mothers of the kids are Brazilian), his speculated real life location. He truly went there for sometime, but in the 1970s he was ''really'' in Brazil (where he died in 1979, meaning that besides the deteriorated health he could have seen the movie).
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Josef Mengele goes from, essentially, a psychotic State-sponsored SerialKiller who was, in reality, a totally incompetent scientist; to the DiabolicalMastermind behind both a cloning project at least a century ahead of its time, and an elaborate political scheme to recreate the Fourth Reich.
** AdolfHitler, too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If nothing else, he is [[TheDreaded dreaded]] enough that everyone fears this outcome. Social, political, economic factors and everything else be damned!
* LargeHam: Both protagonists are enjoying their roles, particularly Peck.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident
* NaziHunter
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: James Mason has a truly fake attempt at a German accent.
* OneHitWonder: Jeremy Black, who played the titular kids, never had another film role, although he still had a career as a stage actor.
* PlayingAgainstType: Gregory Peck is the bad guy here.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle
* SocietyMarchesOn: The description of cloning is painstakingly detailed, as the concept was relegated to more futuristic scifi at the movie's release.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Mengele asks his superiors why he can't "[[WhyCantYouJustShootHim just shoot him]]", only to be denied...
* YouClonedHitler
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Nazis plan is to kill the boys' fathers to replicate Hitler's origin story. But one of them, after knowing Mengele killed his old man, sends the dogs to attack him.]]
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A Simon Wiesenthal Center operative finds something big. All around the world.
A 1976 novel by Ira Levin, it was adapted into a 1978 film starring LaurenceOlivier as Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman and GregoryPeck as Dr Josef Mengele.
The novel and film are a speculative fiction type story involving infamous Nazi scientist Mengele (known as the "Angel of Death" for the extent of death he inflicted upon his victims during the Holocaust) trying to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Hitler and recreating the events of his youth in order to make sure his Hitler Clones become as much like the original as possible.
Unfortunately for him, Mengele has a group of devoted Nazi hunters on his trail...
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!!Tropes featured in this work include:
* ActingForTwo: The Boys
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Villainous example, as Mengele's superiors torch his base and kill his men.
* AndStarring: "And Introducing Jeremy Black." Black never had another screen credit, though he did do some stage work.
* AngryGuardDog: The Wheelock family has about a dozen well-trained dobermans.
* ApocalypseHitler
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Paraguay and Brazil, in this case.
* CassandraTruth: Mengele tells [[spoiler:one of the Hitler clones]] his true origins. It fails.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: In spite of the fact that most of the boys from Brazil are clearly budding sociopaths, Lieberman is against their assassination, since they haven't committed any crimes.
* CloningGambit: [[spoiler:Mengele's plot is to create new, original Hitlers by cloning him and recreating his upbringing.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Their back up plans have back up plans.
* CreepyBlueEyes: The Paraguayans in Mengele's compound and all of the cloned Hitlers. The real Hitler had brown eyes, but many of his portraits were altered during his reign to give him blue eyes.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Barry in the movie]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:In the ending, one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed and excited about his pictures of Mengele's dead body. There are still up to 94 more of them around the world, ticking timebombs.]]
* ExpendableClone: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
* EvilDetectingDog: The dogs don't like Mengele.
* FailureHero
* GoneHorriblyRight: Mengele suddenly finds himself wishing that his cloned Hitler weren't quite so sadistic.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mengele finds himself at the mercy of one of his cloned Hitlers. Oops.
* HuntingAccident: One of the parents' murders is disguised as such.
* HistoryMarchesOn: The movie puts Mengele in Paraguay (though the mothers of the kids are Brazilian), his speculated real life location. He truly went there for sometime, but in the 1970s he was ''really'' in Brazil (where he died in 1979, meaning that besides the deteriorated health he could have seen the movie).
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Josef Mengele goes from, essentially, a psychotic State-sponsored SerialKiller who was, in reality, a totally incompetent scientist; to the DiabolicalMastermind behind both a cloning project at least a century ahead of its time, and an elaborate political scheme to recreate the Fourth Reich.
** AdolfHitler, too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If nothing else, he is [[TheDreaded dreaded]] enough that everyone fears this outcome. Social, political, economic factors and everything else be damned!
* LargeHam: Both protagonists are enjoying their roles, particularly Peck.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident
* NaziHunter
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: James Mason has a truly fake attempt at a German accent.
* OneHitWonder: Jeremy Black, who played the titular kids, never had another film role, although he still had a career as a stage actor.
* PlayingAgainstType: Gregory Peck is the bad guy here.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle
* SocietyMarchesOn: The description of cloning is painstakingly detailed, as the concept was relegated to more futuristic scifi at the movie's release.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Mengele asks his superiors why he can't "[[WhyCantYouJustShootHim just shoot him]]", only to be denied...
* YouClonedHitler
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Nazis plan is to kill the boys' fathers to replicate Hitler's origin story. But one of them, after knowing Mengele killed his old man, sends the dogs to attack him.]]
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